Privacy Policy

Fair Processing Notice

This Fair Processing/Privacy Notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information when you make contact with us.

From April 2013, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC – now called NHS Digital) became the only organisation who are able to collect and analyse Personal Confidential Data (PCD) for non-direct-care purposes i.e. secondary use for commissioning purposes.

Although there have been changes that allow commissioning organisations to undertake greater local processing of PCD for non-care purposes Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group (WCCG)) has chosen to limit the amount of processing of this type of data to the minimum necessary to allow it to undertake its legal and statutory functions.

This Fair Processing/Privacy Notice explains how PCD may be used and under what circumstances.

Due to the nature of how CCGs are supported Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit and Arden&GEM Commissioning Support Unit may provide services on our behalf. WCCG shares data with NHS Midlands & Lancashire CSU PI Limited.

The first part of the notice is the information we need to tell everybody.

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2 weeks

After login, wordpress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[hash] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.

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1 year
1 year

WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

Analytical Cookies

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walsallccg.nhs.uk

Google Analytics

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited

Used to determine the expiry of experiments a user has been included in.

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YouTube

We embed videos from our YouTube channel on our website. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

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8 months

Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

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Expires at the end of your session

This cookie is set by the YouTube video service and aims to limit repeat advertising and deliver more relevant advertising to you.

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8 months

Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.

How to disable Cookies

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.

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